# The Politburo resolves: to express the most severe condemnation of the actions of comrades Tukhachevsky and Smilga, who issued, having no authority whatsoever to do so, their worse-than-tactless order, which undermines the policy of the Party and government *.

Source: PSS vol. 54

The Politburo instructs the RVSR to immediately rescind the order of the RVS of the Western Front and to call the attention of this Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front to the impropriety of its actions ** 719.

1920

Published for the first time, from manuscript

FROM THE REPORT ON THE CURRENT MOMENT

AT THE II ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS

OF WORKERS IN EDUCATION AND SOCIALIST CULTURE

SEPTEMBER 1, 1920

I should like to dwell somewhat more in detail on the present international situation, on how, in connection with this international situation, the urgent tasks of the Soviet Republic have taken shape. It seems to me that the present moment of war with Poland presents a particular interest from the point of view that never, perhaps, have the principal springs of world politics been revealed in the course of events so

* In instructing the secretary to transmit this Politburo resolution by telegraph to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front, V. I. Lenin made a note at the top of the document: "To Brichkina for sending this telegram," and below the text of the resolution wrote: "Copies to comrades Chicherin and Danishevsky." —Ed.

** This text was underlined by V. I. Lenin in pencil and he wrote: "Sklyansky has already been told." —Ed.

clearly and so vividly as now. When Poland declared war on Russia, it was clear to all of us that the principal force acting behind Poland was again and again the imperialism of the Entente, and although, for example, England, as you know, has recently declared quite emphatically and repeated that it did not participate in the Polish offensive, it is nevertheless beyond doubt clear to all present that these declarations were... *

PROPOSAL TO THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b)

ON THE QUESTION OF THE SITUATION IN ARMENIA

Written between August 20 and 24

Brief newspaper report
published September 3, 1920
in *Pravda* No. 194

Printed from stenographic transcript